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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. LMDB vs. ObjectBox vs. RavenDB vs. SurrealDB

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeObject oriented DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbobjectbox.ioravendb.netsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.lmdb.tech/­docdocs.objectbox.ioravendb.net/­docssurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSymasObjectBox LimitedHibernating RhinosSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release19832011201720102022
Current release19.4.1, November 20210.9.32, January 20245.4, July 2022v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++C#Rust
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnonoSQL-like query language (RQL)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14noneonline/offline synchronization between client and serverMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnoyesAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseyes, based on authentication and database rules
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